I wish our view of Islam were tied to evidence-based reality, but it frequently is not.

I wish our weakness did not aid Islam’s resurgence, but it does.

I wish the cautionary pleadings from Jefferson and Adams, Churchill, and Pirenne had been heeded, and not lost in the fog of revisionist history.

I wish our ignorance did not empower those bent on our destruction, but it does.

I wish we scrutinized details, rather than look away, hope for the best, or accommodate the unknown.

I wish Islam had not destroyed the world’s art, architecture and libraries-the repositories of human knowledge, but evidence indicates that it has and it continues still.

I wish no one were denied enjoyment of art, music, laughter and of love, but sadly Islam provides evidence they are denied indeed.

I wish we could compare values across peoples but, alas, the charade of multiculturalism instructs us we cannot, for comparison implies judgment.

I wish women were safe from Islamic violence and sexual slavery, but they are not.

I wish children were cherished and nurtured in Islam, but often we can see they are not.

I wish the world were focused on protecting life and freedom from the clutches of Islamic sharia law, but it is not.

I wish our tolerance beget tolerance, but instead it breeds rage and desire for domination.

I wish Islam had not killed nearly 300,000,000 people in the last 1,400 years, but the legacy of jihad tells us it has.

I wish the jihad had not been born, or had died in the past, but it is ongoing.

I wish Islam would reform or wither; expunge the hate or recede, stamp out jihad or fade away, jettison the sharia or perish.

I wish pleasant fictions could protect us and deny flesh to the sword of jihad, but we remain exposed and vulnerable.

For if we spoke not in the wishes but in objective facts, asked reasoned questions and demanded honest answers, how much better might we understand the current threats and have already fortified our nations to repulse the enemy, thus securing our culture and human liberty from death by a thousand cuts?

~CD

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The image above is the black flag of islam mocking the raising of the American Flag at Iwo Jima during WWII and was found at “Islam Future” with the caption: …The Future Universal Flag… This should make your bile rise.

Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Art may save us, Freedom]]>https://civilusdefendus.wordpress.com/2014/01/18/forsake-me-not/feed/1Civilus DefendusForsake Me NotMy Name is Bosch and I’m a Recovered Muslim…https://civilusdefendus.wordpress.com/2013/09/02/my-name-is-bosch-and-im-a-recovered-muslim/
https://civilusdefendus.wordpress.com/2013/09/02/my-name-is-bosch-and-im-a-recovered-muslim/#commentsMon, 02 Sep 2013 20:56:36 +0000http://civilusdefendus.wordpress.com/?p=965]]>“That is, if Muslims don’t kill me for leaving Islam, which it requires them to do. That’s just one of the reasons I’ve been writing and drawing against Islam and its Jihad for a number of years now. But fortunately for us, Islam hasn’t been able to make every Muslim its slave, just as Nazism wasn’t able to turn every German into a Nazi. So there is Islam and there are Muslims. Muslims who take Islam seriously are at war with us and Muslims who don’t aren’t.

But that doesn’t mean we should consider these reluctant Muslims allies against Jihad. I’ve been around Muslims my entire life and most of them truly don’t care about Islam. The problem I have with many of these essentially non-Muslim Muslims, especially in the middle of this war being waged on us by their more consistent co-religionists, is that they give the enemy cover. They force us to play a game of Muslim Roulette since we can’t tell which Muslim is going to blow himself up until he does. And their indifference about the evil being committed in the name of their religion is a big reason why their reputation is where it is.

So while I understand that most Muslims are not at war with us, they’ve proven in their silence and inaction against jihad that they’re not on our side either, and there’s nothing we can say or do to change that. We just have to finally accept it and stop expecting them to come around, while doing our best to kill those who are trying to kill us.”

To finish this excellent piece by Bosch Fawstin, visit his post at FrontPageMag here.

I call upon the federal government and each elected representative to now, finally, recognize the Muslim Brotherhood as detrimental to human liberty and representative democracy and to remove its influence from our shores. Whether in Egypt or in America, the Muslim Brotherhood (MB or Ikhwan), is ultimately a movement toward a global totalitarian sharia government and must be treated as such.

“The process of settlement is a ‘Civilization-Jihadist Process’ with all the word means. The Ikhwan must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion (Islam) is made victorious over all other religions.”

I also call on the federal government to rescind dubious non-profit status for any entities and their leadership that are shown to have affiliation with the MB. In addition, where appropriate, to have these organizations and their leadership to register with the US government as foreign agents in accordance with the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) which requires anyone “acting as agents of foreign principals in a political or quasi-political capacity to make periodic public disclosure of their relationship with the foreign principal, as well as activities, receipts and disbursements in support of those activities” (see www.fara.gov).

The 1991 Memorandum lists 29 MB affiliated organizations including Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), Muslim Students’ Association (MSA), North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), International Institute for Islamic Thought (IIIT), and Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP, linked as a predecessor to the Council on American-Islamic Relations, CAIR). Some of these organizations and/or their leadership have been exposed as supporters of jihad terror. In a gleeful bracketed note the MB author of the list of states “Imagine if they all march according to one plan!!!” (exclamation points in the original).

“The Muslim Brotherhood “Project”” lists as a key point: “To work with loyalty alongside Islamic groups and institutions in multiple areas to agree on common ground, in order to “cooperate on the points of agreement and set aside the points of disagreement”.” Just imagine if they really were to march according to one plan.

Further characterization of the MB is found in their creed: “Allah is our objective. Koran is our law. The prophet is our leader. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest aspiration.” How far can this be from al-Qaeda’s desires?

However, jihad in the way of Allah to establish Islam and sharia law does not just mean violent, armed insurrection; it also means achieving ideological objectives by means of infiltration into positions of influence within government or as advisors, costly lawsuits claiming discrimination, threats designed to squelch speech, demands for public accommodation, ownership or intimidation of the media and an ever increasing burden on public assistance systems. Foreign funding of university-level Middle Eastern programs comes with strings, with historical and ideological viewpoints that may lean toward indoctrination and not scholarly investigation. Funding, text book modifications and ideological pressure is now also being felt in elementary schools.

Sharia law must not be seen as just a religious law for Muslims, for it is a totalitarian theo-political construct under which Muslims and non-Muslims are oppressed. In addition to its hostility to the spirit of the Declaration of Independence and representative governance, at a minimum, sharia law conflicts with the US Constitution at Article IV Section 4 (republican form of government); 1st Amendment (freedom of speech, press, assembly and religion); 4th, 5th, 7th and 14th Amendments (personal security, due process); 8th Amendment (by allowing cruel and unusual punishments); and 10th Amendment (by prohibiting states’ rights). Ignorance and misplaced toleration of Islamic intolerance simply enables the advance of sharia and the retreat of open inquiry and the rule of Constitutional law.

That Islam has not yet achieved its objective or that it seems unachievable is immaterial, the global and domestic efforts to do so are in themselves destructive of our nation and free society. Egypt is demonstrating its resolve and its tilt toward freedom by once again containing the Ikhwan, the Muslim Brothers; I think it is time for us to consider the same.

The bombs of Boston, the massacre at Fort Hood and the infiltration of our nation are each dots of jihad to be connected and used in defense of self. It is moral and right that we do so; it is unconscionable that we have delayed self-defense for so long.

“The refusal of the Western elite class to protect their nations from jihadist infiltration is the biggest betrayal in history.” ~Serge Trifkovic

Muslims begin moving to non-Muslim countries in increasing numbers and the beginning of cultural conflicts are visible, though often subtle.

First migration wave to non-Muslim “host” country.

Appeal for humanitarian tolerance from the host society.

Attempts to portray Islam as a peaceful & Muslims as victims of misunderstanding and racism (even though Islam is not a ‘race’).

High Muslim birth rate in host country increase Muslim population.

Mosques used to spread Islam and dislike of host country & culture.

Calls to criminalize “Islamophobia” as a hate crime.

Threatened legal action for perceived discrimination.

Offers of “interfaith dialogue” to indoctrinate non-Muslims.

How many nations are suffering from Islamic infiltration? One? A handful? Nearly every nation? The Islamic ‘leadership” of the Muslim Brotherhood and others wish to dissolve each nation’s sovereignty and replace it with the global imposition of Islamic sharia law. Sharia law, based on the koran, sira and hadith, condemns liberty and forbids equality and is inconsistent with the laws of all Western nations. As the author and historian Serge Trifkovic states:

“The refusal of the Western elite class to protect their nations from jihadist infiltration is the biggest betrayal in history.”

STAGE 2: CONSOLIDATION OF POWER

Muslim immigrants and host country converts continue demands for accommodation in employment, education, social services, financing and courts.

Efforts to undermine and destroy power base of non-Muslim religions including and especially Jews and Christians.

Is there a pattern here? Theo van Gogh is murdered in the Netherlands for ‘insulting’ Islam; the Organization of the Islamic Conference demands ‘anti-blasphemy’ laws through the United Nations; France is set afire regularly by ‘youths’ (read Muslims); the rise of (dis-) honor killings…holocaust denial…anti-Semitism…deception re the tenets of Islam; hatred toward Christians and Jews and Hindus and Buddhists. The pattern for all to see is the rise of Islamic intolerance and the covert/cultural jihad to remake host societies into sharia-compliant worlds – to remove host sovereignty and replace it with Islamic sharia law. Sharia law that condemns earthly liberty and individual freedom, that forbids equality among faiths and between the sexes, that rejects the concept of nations outside the global house of Islam, that of dar al-Islam.

STAGE 3: OPEN WAR w/ LEADERSHIP & CULTURE

Open violence to impose Sharia law and associated cultural restrictions; rejection of host government, subjugation of other religions and customs.

Intentional efforts to undermine the host government & culture.

Acts of barbarity to intimidate citizens and foster fear and submission.

Open and covert efforts to cause economic collapse of the society.

All opposition is challenged and either eradicated or silenced.

Mass execution of non-Muslims.

Widespread ethnic cleansing by Islamic militias.

Rejection and defiance of host society secular laws or culture.

Murder of “moderate” Muslim intellectuals who don’t support Islamization.

Destruction of churches, synagogues and other non-Muslim institutions.

Women are restricted further in accordance with Sharia law.

Large-scale destruction of population, assassinations, bombings.

Toppling of government and usurpation of political power.

Imposition of Sharia law

The website www.thereligionofpeace.com keeps track of the number of violent jihad attacks as best it can. The site lists more than 14,000 attacks since September 2001. It is worth a visit. What is occurring, however, that is likely inestimable are events where muslims are bullied by other muslims for not being “muslim enough,” where non-Muslims are intimidated into doing or not doing what they desire, where remnant populations are in a death spiral simply for being non-muslim in a predominantly muslim area. Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists Animists and Atheists meet with death, property destruction or confiscation, forced conversion, rape, excessive taxation (the jizya), enslavement, riotous mobs and various other forms of islam (in-) justice at the hands of muslims in Sudan, Philippines, Kenya, Malaysia, India, etc. And let us not forget ‘death to Apostates’ the world over.

STAGE 4: Totalitarian ISLAMIC “THEOCRACY”

Islam becomes the only religious-political-judicial-cultural ideology.

Sharia becomes the “law of the land.

All non-Islamic human rights cancelled.

Enslavement and genocide of non-Muslim population.

Freedom of speech and the press eradicated.

All religions other than Islam are forbidden and destroyed.

Destruction of all evidence of non-Muslim culture, populations and symbols in country (Buddhas, houses of worship, art, etc).

The House of Islam (“peace”), dar al-Islam, includes those nations that have submitted to Islamic rule, to the soul crushing, liberty-condemning, discriminatory law of Sharia. The rest of the world in in the House of War, dar al-harb, because it does not submit to Sharia, and exists in a state of rebellion or war with the will of ‘Allah.’ No non-Muslim state or its citizens are “innocent,” and remain viable targets of war for not believing in ‘Allah.’ The Christian, Jewish, Coptic, Hindu and Zoroastrian peoples of world have suffered under subjugation for centuries. The Dhimmi-esque are forbidden to construct houses of worship or repair existing ones, economically crippled by the heavy jizya (tax), socially humiliated, legally discriminated against, criminally targeted and generally kept in a permanent state of weakness, fear and vulnerability by Islamic governments.

It should be noted that forced conversions (Egypt) and slavery (Sudan) are still reported. Homosexuals have been hung in the public square in Iran. Young girls are married to old men. Apostates are threatened with death. “Honor” killings are routine. Women are legally second-class citizens, though Muslim males insist they are “treated better” than in the West. These more obvious manifestations may distract from some less obvious ones such as the lack of intellectual inquiry in science, narrow scope of writing, all but non-existent art and music, sexual use and abuse of youth and women, and the disregard for personal fulfillment, joy and wonder. Look into the eyes of a recently married 12 year old girl to see the consequence of the moral deprivation spawned by Islam.

The 4 Stages of Islamic Conquest is also available in pdf format for easy sharing as part of “Liberty vs Sharia” (Click, save, share. Attribution appreciated.)

“Have you ever wondered why millions of Muslim men are dedicated to killing Americans? Or why so many are willing to blow themselves up to kill Israelis? Or why they are so committed to blowing up random people in Bali, London, Madrid, etc.?

Islamic supremacists are doing this all over the world, attacking Westerners and their own fellow Muslims alike. Why?

Because of a doctrine. A doctrine is a collection of ideas… If you were going to deliberately design a collection of ideas with the purpose of making it eventually dominate the world — one that would eventually out-compete every other religion, doctrine, or political system — you would be hard-pressed to do better than Islam.”

The theo-political doctrine of Islam is defined by the koran (Allah) and sunnah (all things Mohammed) and implemented under “sacred” Islamic sharia law (see the ROTT*). Islam is as much a political ideology as a theological creed, concerning itself largely with the treatment of non-believers, rather than with good deeds and the salvation of believers. And its ‘good deeds’ often involve the maltreatment of non-believers. Islam, as a political manifesto, should be labeled a threat doctrine, its true believers a threat.

Islam makes the attainment of political objectives a religious duty. What is Islam striving to attain? Its ultimate imperial and supremacist aim is to replace or subjugate anything non-Islamic. First, a gentle invitation to Islam; accept and join the “ummah,” the global Islamic community. Second, a not so gentle offer to live in subjugation under sharia as a third-class non-Muslim, paying the jizya (non-Muslim tax) and feeling subdued, humiliated and weak. Or third, all manner of jihad upon you until you do the first, the second or die.

Nearly 1400 years of history are witness to Islam’s expansion and progress toward ‘sharia uber alles.’ Wherever Islam establishes itself, a state within a state develops and the existing form of government and unbelieving (kafir, infidel) culture is rejected. The ummah grows, first weakening the host culture by social pressure, political means or violence, then imposing sharia through intimidation or actual codification in law.

Sharia denies freedom of speech, religion, expression and action and rejects equality between men and women, thereby violating human rights. Sharia has no “Golden Rule” to treat individuals equally. Instead Sharia segregates people into classes: Muslims and non-Muslims. Muslims are supreme and non-Muslims are inferior, holding no equal rights under Islam. Muslim-Muslim relations are completely separate from Muslim-kafir relations, where deceit is sanctioned and mistreatment largely unpunished.

No matter the temperament of individual Muslims, the Islamic community as a whole, the ummah, drives the process of Islamization—situating Islam as a superior “special class”—in every country where Islam thrives. Islam and the sharia. Mosques teach it, Muslims demand it and all else falls before it. Across the globe intimidation, violence and political upheaval are associated with increasing Muslim populations.

The US is a representative democracy thoughtfully crafted by our founders, with the Declaration of Independence proclaiming that humans are created equal and have unalienable rights, and the US Constitution protecting these rights through law. Sharia is irreconcilably in conflict with our founding principles and law—its objectives are indeed to overturn our law and replace it with their sharia. We cannot extend our welcome to Islam’s supremacism and intolerance for to do so is cultural suicide.

President Thomas Jefferson rejected the payment of tribute to Islamic Ottoman provinces and their pirates in 1801. We should similarly reject any monetary homage today or tolerate the growth of a threat doctrine or its body of believers within our borders. The Islamic ummah and its law, the sharia, are grave dangers to the United States of America and should be acknowledged as such and treated as such.

*Reliance of the Traveller: The Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law at Amazon

Filed under: Freedom, Islam - Insights, Sharia, US Constitution]]>https://civilusdefendus.wordpress.com/2012/10/07/liberty-is-better/feed/1Civilus DefendusIS A MORAL ASSESSMENT OF EVIL… BIGOTRY?https://civilusdefendus.wordpress.com/2012/10/03/moral-assessment-of-evil/
https://civilusdefendus.wordpress.com/2012/10/03/moral-assessment-of-evil/#commentsWed, 03 Oct 2012 17:49:19 +0000http://civilusdefendus.wordpress.com/?p=821]]>In any threat situation fear exists. Fear of death and manner of death, of pain, of confrontation, of shouting bearded men from an alien culture. Fear exists and is useful. Fear of islam/sharia/jihad is not a phobia. The reaction is the key… cowardice, appeasement and submission are common responses, however courage, action, insight, leadership are also possible responses to fear.

The other part of response is our lack of belief in ourselves, perhaps even an understanding of why we are not Afghanistan or Somalia or Zimbabwe or North Korea. PC – not speaking in facts, truths, data, history, nor asking difficult questions – is disarming us mentally and physically.

Is PC about not offending someone else, or not believing in yourself? Are we as a society so hollow, so empty? As Evan Sayet put it, for liberals “A moral thought is an act of bigotry.” Is a moral assessment of evil bigotry? Can I not say that rape, murder and paedophilia are bad and wrong? That totalitarian government and intrusive, oppressive, discriminatory overlords are bad for humanity? That islam is not just different, but WRONG. Wrong on liberty, wrong on equality before the law, wrong on nuturing childhood development, wrong in its restriction of art, music, human expression? Are my thoughts a crime against humanity? Or an assessment of a theo-political doctrine that is the antithesis of Western Culture and the American Constitution that I cherish?

Filed under: Freedom, Islam - Civil Defense, Uncategorized, US Constitution]]>https://civilusdefendus.wordpress.com/2012/10/03/moral-assessment-of-evil/feed/2Civilus DefendusLady Liberty on 9 11Imagine the Implications… Slanderoushttps://civilusdefendus.wordpress.com/2012/08/30/imagine-the-slander/
https://civilusdefendus.wordpress.com/2012/08/30/imagine-the-slander/#commentsThu, 30 Aug 2012 22:31:42 +0000http://civilusdefendus.wordpress.com/?p=799]]>In an American courtroom, the proof of slander must include both a false statement by the speaker and demonstration of damage to the subject slandered. Under Islamic sharia law, it is up to the SUBJECT to decide what he or she does not want to hear. Turns free speech on its head. Especially if the Emperor really is naked.

Civilus Defendus

August 2012

Filed under: Islam - Insights, Sharia, Uncategorized, US Constitution]]>https://civilusdefendus.wordpress.com/2012/08/30/imagine-the-slander/feed/0Civilus DefendusOxford Legal, SlanderROTT, r2.2 Slander, ghibaAbode of Subjugation?https://civilusdefendus.wordpress.com/2012/07/09/abode-of-subjugation/
https://civilusdefendus.wordpress.com/2012/07/09/abode-of-subjugation/#commentsMon, 09 Jul 2012 00:48:02 +0000http://civilusdefendus.wordpress.com/?p=771]]>Death and terror from islam may seem like far off possibilities. Easy to dismiss, perhaps, with no personal responsibility and no moral qualms accruing to the citizen. However, islam’s goal is not to kill us all, but to convert a few and subjugate the rest.

Islam’s ideological goal is not war or terror, for those are tactics, the goal is to replace man-made law with “sacred” islamic law-the sharia, the path-so that islam reigns over Muslims and non-Muslims alike. Aside from a few hot wars, there is little to deter them; few in positions of political leadership know about sharia, fewer yet speak forthrightly about it. And since islam makes political objectives a religious duty, the global march is on.

The rule of Muslims over non-Muslims is part of sharia and is defined in the authoritative book The Reliance of the Traveller-A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law.* A detailed description of life as an inferior being under sharia is found at “o11.0 Non-Muslim Subjects of the Islamic State (Ahl-Dhimma)” on page 607. It is described as a formal agreement of protection and if you as an infidel follow it you won’t be harmed.

What does life under the dhimmi agreement mean? Foremost you are obliged to follow the sharia whether you like to or not, understand it or not, agree with it or not (o11.3). You are a second class subject-think Copts. It means oppression-think Christians in Pakistan. It is subjugation. And what does that subjugation look like?

The subjugated person, the dhimmi under the condition of dhimmitude, will be penalized for committing adultery or theft (though generously not for drunkenness); must dress differently by command; are not greeted with “as-Salamu ‘alaykum”; must keep to the side of the street; may not build higher than or as high as the Muslims’ buildings (though if they acquire a tall house, it is not razed – such kindness!); are forbidden to openly display wine or pork, forbidden to ring church bells, forbidden to display crosses, forbidden to recite the Torah or evangelize; and of course forbidden to build new churches (o11.4). And the dhimmi must never harm a Muslim or disparage islam and certainly not draw offensive cartoons.

Imagine what this subjugation might feel like. Well, we might not need to imagine at all, for in many ways it has already arrived. Thinking twice before you speak your mind. Wondering if your on-line posts will bring account termination. As a business owner, being coerced to accommodate Muslims whether as employees or customers. Finding school texts and college courses filled with historical fantasies about islamic contributions. Needing to go to a special store to buy certain products because your local grocer was cowed into not carrying them. Watching the media contort itself to adhere to internal speech codes. Hearing your local mosque blaring the call to prayer. Being ignored by your elected representatives. And there will be the paying of the jizya – the islamic poll tax (o11.3), as you will be reduced to a tax slave. And if you elect to violate the dhimmi contract – war be upon you, kinetic or civilizational jihad.

Is this sinking in? Is the foundation for hope and tolerance and mutual respect cracking?. Whether in formal agreement or simply by intimidation, islam and sharia advance and non-Muslim cultures retreat, as they have for centuries. Your culture is now retreating. Your law is violated, your liberty cast aside, your voice silenced. Even your military and security apparatus has all but criminalized any accurate description of the current kinetic and cultural threats. Those with such knowledge have been fired, eschewed and their words purged. And is our foreign aid (derived from OUR tax dollars) being cheerfully received as jizya or tribute by Muslim-majority nations? Is our “leadership” kneeling before islam on your behalf?

This is subjugation. Dhimmitude by agreement or dhimmitude by intimidation and cultural retreat ends up being very much the same thing.

We as a nation, we as a world interested in freedom of conscience and equality before the law must speak and act to prevent the retrogression, the suppression of human liberty and annihilation of culture.